Pith Number

pith:S5VV7FUB

pith:2011:S5VV7FUBGVZJI7KWNP4XDWK7O3

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Information filtering via preferential diffusion

Linyuan Lu, Weiping Liu

arxiv:1102.5499 v1 · 2011-02-27 · physics.data-an · cs.IR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S5VV7FUBGVZJI7KWNP4XDWK7O3}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:19:03.181262Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

976b5f96813572947d566bf971d95f76e8f53e8925d55e095a909d6d0f511eed

Aliases

arxiv: 1102.5499 · arxiv_version: 1102.5499v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1102.5499 · pith_short_12: S5VV7FUBGVZJ · pith_short_16: S5VV7FUBGVZJI7KW · pith_short_8: S5VV7FUB

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/S5VV7FUBGVZJI7KWNP4XDWK7O3 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 976b5f96813572947d566bf971d95f76e8f53e8925d55e095a909d6d0f511eed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dc664016927a18fa1282923cd66ec15523761333db346f53b3b3281103313286",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.data-an",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-27T13:12:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5a2c23614b91ad1ee093e74909fa5d0b6ef29b07fab9c99ae44349a88254d8d4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1102.5499",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}